store blobs / inlined files as separate text lines: smaller values are more healthy for the Poly/ML RTS and allow implicit sharing;
integrity check of SHA1 digests produced in Scala vs. ML;
tuned signature;
syntax: glob
*~
*.class
*.jar
*.orig
*.rej
.DS_Store
.swp
syntax: regexp
^contrib
^heaps/
^browser_info/
^doc/.*\.dvi
^doc/.*\.eps
^doc/.*\.pdf
^doc/.*\.ps
^src/Tools/jEdit/dist/